Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

• This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wishes to develop their skills working within Early Years in a small and supportive team. We are looking for a self- motivated, friendly and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist to join our established Children’s Therapy Team in North Lincolnshire.
• Your job will be to provide Speech and Language support and input to children within Early Years arena including children with a diverse range of communication difficulties. You will work closely with the established team, Early Years Education providers and Local Authority colleagues. You will also support the team lead in new service development activities including the local Authority 2-3 year service. If you do not meet all the essential criteria this post may be considered as a Band 5-6 Development in which case we would expect that competencies would be developed within 12 months.

Main duties of the job

·Provide high quality Paediatric Speech and language Therapy assessment and interventions and support for a wide range of less and more complex conditions to provide evidence based and timely support reducing the risk of harm and improving outcomes.

·Responsible for managing own caseload and a defined area of the service, working without direct supervision.

·Responsible for leading delegated service improvement and quality initiatives to drive forward improvement for CYP in our area.

·Supervision, support and training for junior staff and other professionals to ensure a highly skilled, supported workforce.

·Delivery and development of Training for settings, practitioners and carers.

·Working with Local Authority and Team lead to develop area wide 2-3 year service.

·Provision of Specialist written and verbal advice including statutory duties

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.

“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Relevant Degree/MSc in Speech and Language Therapy
• Current HCPC registration

Desirable criteria

• • Post graduate study in appropriate clinical areas e.g. MSc modules in Paediatrics
• • Wide range of CPD activities, esp. related to specialist area

Clinical experience

Essential criteria

• • Post graduate Assessment and intervention experience in Speech and Language Therapy across a range of Paediatric clinical areas relevant to the post.
• • Experience of working with at least one more complex clinical pathway (for example Speech Sound Disorders, DLD, Language Disorder, Autism, AAC)
• • Experience of working with other professionals e.g., schools, pre-school settings

Desirable criteria

• • Clinical experience as Autonomous practitioner for management of complex clinical paediatric clinical pathways relevant to the post

Management and leadership

Essential criteria

• • Evidence of supervision of registered or non registered staff/students

Training

Essential criteria

• • Experience of delivering presentations at post graduate level to patients and/or professionals
• • Experience of clinical education of students, assistants or other staff

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